Bruce P. Frohnen

Bruce P. Frohnen is Associate Professor of Law at Ave Maria School of Law in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Senior Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal.

Bruce Frohnen

He began his legal career as a resident scholar with the Heritage Foundation and as a senior fellow with Liberty Fund. He later spent five years as a legislative aide to former U.S. Senator Spencer Abraham. Before joining the Ave Maria faculty, Professor Frohnen served as a visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He previously held teaching positions at the Catholic University of America, Emory University, Oglethorpe University, Cornell College, and Reed College.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts from California State University, a Master of Arts from the University of California at Davis, a Master of Arts and a Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University, and a Juris Doctor from Emory University School of Law.

He is the author of Virtue and the Promise of Conservatism: The Legacy of Burke and Tocqueville (University Press of Kansas, 1993) and The New Communitarians and the Crisis of Modern Liberalism (University Press of Kansas, 1996). He is editor of The American Republic: Primary Sources (Liberty Fund, 2002), The Anti-Federalists: Selected Writings and Speeches (Regnery, 2000) and, with George W. Carey, Community and Tradition: Conservative Perspectives on the American Experience (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998). His articles have appeared in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, the American Journal of Jurisprudence, National Review, and numerous academic reviews and journals of opinion. He is co-editor of American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia, published by ISI Books.

Kirk was convinced that in our age, the unimagined life is not worth living for a human being. He labored to reform our sensibilities, so that we could see ourselves both for what we are and for what we have become. He labored to make available an intellectual tradition of dissent from the modern age. He labored to release our hearts from the bondage of ideology.

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Colson on Kirk

We were pleased to note Chuck Colson referencing Russell Kirk so warmly, and correctly noting Dr. Kirk’s rejection of ideology, in a commentary from June 6, 2008 titled “True Conservatism.”

Jul 2008

Defending the Conversation

In the newest of the Bookman‘s web-only content, James Seaton reviews Anthony Kronman’s stirring defense of a traditional liberal-arts education. Click here for the review!

Jun 2008

Kirk on Eliot

A new edition of Dr. Kirk’s acclaimed literary biography, Eliot and His Age: T. S. Eliot’s Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century is being published in July 2008 by ISI Books.

Jun 2008

Eliot Conference

The Kirk Center is co-sponsoring a conference on T. S. Eliot on August 14–16, 2008 in conjunction with the new edition of Dr. Kirk’s book, Eliot and His Age. See the conference page for details.

May 2008

Healy Interview

The Bookman has just posted an interview with Gene Healy, author of the new book, The Cult of the Presidency: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power.

May 2008

New Bookman

University BookmanThe new Spring issue of the University Bookman is out and the full contents are posted on our site. The issue is devoted to the art of biography with reviews of new books on Ralph Adams Cram (by Dan McCarthy), Orestes Brownson, conservative luminary Gerhart Niemeyer, and others. Subscribe here.

Apr 2008